As many as five sectors including defence, ports and coal have failed to attract any foreign direct investments during the April-December period of the current fiscal, Parliament was informed on Monday.

The power ministry has finally framed new rules to get electricity supply from independent power producers in lieu of dry fuel, which is aimed at offering more freedom to states to use their allocated coal.

Rationalisation of the coal freight tariff by railways will have minimal impact on power tariff and the move would gradually lead to domestic fuel replacing imported coal, Power Minister Piyush Goyal said on Monday.

The Finance Ministry is pushing for buyback of shares by Central Public Sector Enterprises (CPSEs). This is being done for two purposes to generate cash for the government and help push the valuation for any divestment.

A special court Wednesday asked CBI to supply some deficient documents, filed along with the charge sheet, to Himachal EMTA Power Ltd (HEPL) and others who are accused in a coal scam case for allegedly misrepresenting facts to acquire a coal block in West Bengal.

Supreme Court Wednesday received an initial report of the panel appointed by it to probe the alleged scuttling of probe into the coal block allocation scam by then CBI Director Ranjit Sinha, whose meetings with accused persons have been held as "completely inappropriate".

The Supreme Court Wednesday refused to involve the panel, probing alleged misconduct of former CBI Director Ranjit Sinha, in the investigation of the coal scam to consider such purported charges arising against him from other cases.